Thomas Kirkpatrick Monro (1865 – 10 January 1958) was

Regius Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics The Regius Chair of Medicine and Therapeutics is considered the oldest professor, chair at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. It was formed in 1989 from the merge of the Regius Chairs of the Practice of Medicine (founded in 1637) and of Materia ...

at the University of Glasgow. He was director of Glasgow Royal Maternity and Women's Hospital, professor of medicine and dean of the Medical Faculty at St Mungo's College, senior editor of the ''

Glasgow Medical Journal The ''Scottish Medical Journal'' is a general medical journal, which publishes original research in all branches of medicine, review articles, history of medicine articles, and clinical memoranda. The editor-in-chief is Ghulam Nabi (University o ...

'', and governor of the Royal Technical College. He also served as a major in the

Royal Army Medical Corps The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) is a specialist corps in the British Army which provides medical services to all Army personnel and their families, in war and in peace. The RAMC, the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, the Royal Army Dental Corps a ...

.Thomas Monro.
University of Glasgow. Retrieved 20 November 2018. Monro was also an avid bibliophile, bibliographer and book-collector who amassed an almost complete collection of

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and served as the President of the Glasgow Bibliographical Society. The Monro Collection is now held in the special collections of the University of Glasgow Library.

Selected publications

* ''History of the Chronic Degenerative Diseases of the Central Nervous System'' (1895). * ''Manual of Medicine'' (1903). * ''The Early Editions of Sir Thomas Browne'' (Records of the Glasgow Bibliographical Society, vol. 7, 1918-1920). * ''The Physician as a Man of Letters, Science and Action'' (1933).

References

External links

Glasgow University Library Special Collections department blogpost on the Monro Collection.
1865 births 1958 deaths People from Arbroath 19th-century Scottish medical doctors 20th-century Scottish medical doctors Scottish bibliophiles Royal Army Medical Corps officers {{Scotland-med-bio-stub